Governor Of South Kalimantan Uncle Birin Leads The Planting Of Seeds Of Dozens Of Rare Fruit Trees

Governor of South Kalimantan Sahbirin Noor or familiarly called Uncle Birin directs the planting of dozens of species of fruit trees that are already rare / PHOTO VIA ANTARA

BANJARMASIN - Governor of South Kalimantan Sahbirin Noor or familiarly called Uncle Birin directly led the planting of dozens of rare fruit tree species in the Indonesian Tropical Rain Forest Park (TH2THI) in Banjarbaru City.

"There are as many as 300 seeds from dozens of fruit tree species that are already rare in this province during planting activities led directly by the governor," said Head of the South Kalimantan Provincial Forestry Service Fathimatuzzahra in Banjarmasin as reported by Antara, Monday, June 6.

According to him, the tree planting activity in the TH2THI area in the South Kalimantan Governor's office area in Banjarbaru City is part of the series of World Environment Day celebrations in 2022.

In addition, he said, this activity was part of the spirit of the green revolution movement which was initiated by the Governor of South Kalimantan, Sahbirin Noor, for a long time aimed at improving the condition of the world's lungs, which had begun to deteriorate.

Fathimatuzzahra also revealed that the seeds of rare fruit trees planted in the area of about 1 hectare include the types of ginalun, limpasu, lempaung, papisangan, forest mangosteen.

Furthermore, the types of puyian, silulung, kungkus, ramania, babuku, bintarung, bundu, butterfly kapul, landur, manja, looks of milk, swamps, keliwin. , lahung, puntit, Bacaurea Bangka, Maritam and Bangkinang.

He said the selection of rare fruit trees was as directed and desired by the governor as the beginning of the construction of a rare fruit seed garden in Kalimantan, especially in the city of Banjarbaru.

"As directed by the governor, the development of this rare fruit seed orchard will become one of the Genetic Resources Areas (ASDG) in South Kalimantan. This is one of our efforts to maintain biodiversity, especially rare fruit, down to the genetic level," said Fathimatuzzahra.

He explained that this seed garden will become a living laboratory for Kalimantan's rare fruit plants, as a long-term anticipation of biodiversity.

In addition, the construction of a seed garden in the TH2TI area is one of the real works of the Green Revolution Movement (Revjo) of South Kalimantan, a movement that aims to mobilize all components of the people in South Kalimantan, to care about the environment through planting trees.

In fact, he said, the South Kalimantan green revolution concept has been supported by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry.

"Some of the concepts have been mixed and then developed nationally," he said.